New Orleans Rep. Aimee Freeman (D)
Abortion clinics were forced to stop procedures Friday after a New Orleans judge lifted the restraining order challenging the state’s abortion ban trigger laws. The judge also moved the challenge to a Baton Rouge courtroom. Pro-life advocate and President of Louisiana Family Forum, Gene Mills said in the end the ban will remain in effect and abortion clinics will close shop.
“This is a legal chess match it’s a forgone conclusion. We know what the end of this is going to be the question is they’re disputing the effective date” Mills said.
New Orleans Representative and pro-choice advocate Aimee Freeman voted against the most recent legislation to ban abortions and said without exceptions for rape or incest that “we are literally telling people that we are ok as a state with an 11-year-old child carrying a pregnancy to full term and to me that’s absolutely horrific.”
Attorneys on behalf of a Shreveport abortion clinic and the Center for Reproductive Rights are challenging the ban on the grounds the laws are vague. And while the judge agreed she move the case to a Baton Rouge court where state laws are usually addressed. Mills said the laws are very clear.
“The next question before them will be on the merits of the case. And the merits are clear, abortion incorporated has got to go” Mills said.
Freeman said otherwise and the laws punishing physicians who perform abortions up to 15 years are insane. She also questioned portions of the law requiring two physicians to decide if a pregnancy is medically futile.
“What does that actually mean? Do we wait until someone is almost dead or until their fifty percent dead? Do we wait until they’ve been checked in the hospital?”
A court date for the case is to be determined.
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